ADMIRATION
Prompt - Admiration : is there someone you admire? Write about those feelings.
Who do I admire? It's hard to think of one specific individual over others. I admire anyone who cares about others, who wants everyone to have the chance of a decent life, and who actually does something about it. That can be politicians campaigning for an Indy Scotland and the chance to create a fairer society. Or people who give up part of their lives to do something for others. Or even people who, through some other endeavour, have achieved public prominence and use that to campaign for positive, progressive change. I'm thinking the likes of Naomi Osaka, Andy Murray and Marcus Rashford.
I want change, I want Indy, I want a fairer, more progressive society. But. Other than little bit of voluntary work, I 'do' very little, just talk or tweet about things. I am not a change enabler, never will be. I lack the necessary dedication, work ethic, determination, call it what you will. So I can admire anyway who does.
But if I had to pick an actual individual, it would be my wife. She has to put up with a very flawed, at times hypocritical, person in her life, and I sometimes wonder how she manages. I can only be grateful and wondering. And as loving as possible. In terms of the definition I advanced above, of doing good for society, she's as limited as me, as lethargic and inactive (which might be one reason why we're so well matched...), but all of that is nothing compared to her ability to get on with this introverted sociopath!
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